profiles and policies

[Anders C. Thorsen]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 04:07:24PM -0800, Neal Koss wrote:
> It's not the use of the roaming profiles that is the problem. I just don't 
> need them. My network is just the 2 computers in my home and I always logon 
> from my machine. But I'm sorry, I just don't understand what you meant by 
> the users saving their files.... I thought (for example, in Eudora) that I 
> was saving to a subdirectory of my main Eudora directory, but I find that 
> somehow Win98 and Samba have changed that to 
> C:\windows\profiles\neal\application data\qualcomm\eudora. I never set that 

This is a "feature" in Eudora... Windows/Samba did not actively change that,
altough Eudora did due to the presence of user Profiles on Windows

I believe that someone suggested
LOGON PATH = E:
PROFILE PATH = 
in smb.conf
LOGON PATH describes where the netlogon share is to be, and
where the logon scripts should be run from.

PROFILE PATH = 
will tell WINDOWS not to copy the profiles.


> up! Similarly, some other programs have ended up with their data 
> directories there too. Are these being refreshed with each logon also? This 
> is what I am trying to avoid since it just adds time to the logon. Thanks....
> 
> At 08:50 PM 11/20/00 +1100, eirvine wrote:
>  >Hi Neal,
>  >
>  >I have always used roaming profiles,
>  >so I've never tried to turn it
>  >off. However, If your users are
>  >saving their files to either the
>  >My Documents folder or on to their
>  >Desktop, then they are by default
>  >saving to their own profile, thus
>  >increasing its size, thus increasing
>  >the logon time.
>  >
>  >Perhaps you could convince your users
>  >to save somewhere better?
>  >
>  >Hope this helps.
>  >
>  >Eddie.
>  >
>  >Neal Koss wrote:
>  >>
>  >> Each time I log into the Samba network, The system seems to be copying a
>  >> large number of files from the Server to the client computer. I would
>  >> prefer that this not occur.
>  >>
>  >> My setup is just a small network and I do not require roaming profiles, but
>  >> I would like to see more rapid logons and logoffs. I use Windows 98 for my
>  >> clients and FreeBSD 4.1.1 on the gateway computer running Samba.
>  >>
>  >> Thank you
> 

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